Prayers for Pets
Jaffa – we’re thinking about you
Please pray for Jaffa, a magnificent Rhodesian Ridgeback who has recently been to see us at the sanctuary. Jaffa is having an operation tomorrow and, while it is routine, it is still a stressful time. Jaffa is a big lad but he is a real softie at heart. Let’s pray that he will not [...]
Dogs on the menu in China
Cindy is plump and we want to slim her down, but in certain parts of the world people would see her as just right – for the table. In the U.K. a dog is man’s best friend but in China a canine is often seen as an enjoyable dinner dish. The thought of killing [...]
Prayers for pets in Malta
Your prayers and focused thoughts please for Star, a brave collie recently rescued from a terrible fate in the holiday isle of Malta. She was found only by chance, she had been shot and buried, her nose and legs were bound with wire and she was barely alive. A passerby saw her nose [...]
Pray for cattle in Indonesia
Australia has just banned the export of livestock to Indonesia because of the extreme cruelty at the country’s abbattoirs. Animal righty’s campaigners have film of cattle being tortured before being killed by horriffic methods, they also show the terrible handling the animals endure before slaughter. While it seems that most people want to see the [...]
Dog rescue in Japan
Our prayers for the dogs left in the radiation zone – Isn’t it great to know that in spite of all their misery and danger, the animal lovers of Japan are thinking about the poor dogs who have been left in the nuclear disaster zone. When a volunteer at an animal sanctuary in [...]
Prayers for Japan
Our thoughts and prayers go to the people of Japan who have suffered such a devastating natural disaster. The human loss and suffering is almost beyond comprehension. There must have been many animals, both farmed, domestic and wild, who have also perished, our prayers go to them. The threat of further nuclear disaster [...]
Prayers for ponies
Even when the weather is very bad the moorland ponies usually manage because they have a vast acreage to roam in and are able to find natural shelter. Freedom is what they crave most of all. Their only natural predator is man and at the end of every year the ponies are driven [...]
Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas to all our Pet Samaritan friends, supporters, dog walkers and volunteers – we couldn’t do it without you! Miss Nolene is wrapped up warm - let’s make our prayer for pets – ‘that animals everywhere are safe and living a natural life this Christmas.’ The ponies don’t like the snow and have extra [...]
Pray for the poor turkeys
How did turkeys come to be associated with Christmas? These are large woodland birds, good fliers, used to roosting in trees and living naturally in flocks. A turkey is a cautious bird and completely non-aggressive. They flee at any sign of danger. Turkeys are also companiable with other animals, ours live alongside [...]
Pity the poor lions
A shocking video on t.v. this week made us cringe. The immediate horror of it was that some lions in a circus in the Ukraine had attacked their trainer during a show. It was a mauling and we hope he makes a complete recovery. But what was so dreadful was that this [...]
